Chapter 34: Beginning of a forced duel

“Hello, Demon King, I was eager to meet you,” a distorted voice speaks to me, the tone clearly modified.

I look towards the sound, I see a distorted humanoid form, I can’t identify what it is, but something is already quite clear to me when I look at this “thing”.

“How rude of me, I will introduce myself, I am Mikael Calamitas.” After recovering from the initial shock, my first reaction is…

‘Flee, I need to flee now.’ I start running in the opposite direction from this “thing”, my body alone flees, jumping between the pillars to increase speed, my body trembles with fear and just screams for me to flee now.

I have never felt so oppressed and scared before, a sense of danger greater than anything I’ve ever felt before.

My body never reacted this way, it fled before I even had the idea to do so, I start summoning various wolves and sharks to try to slow down that thing if it decides to come after me.

“Damn… why did I show up here all of a sudden? I-Is that guy the strongest human? Is that a human?” His aura is so oppressive, besides the clear murderous intent I felt, the bloodlust in those polite words was so high that it seemed palpable.

I had already felt the will to kill of monsters in the Dungeon, but it doesn’t even come close to this thing that called itself Mikael Calamitas.

I have never felt so humiliated before, since I was born as the Demon King, nothing has been able to cause me so much fear.

“I-Impossible…” I feel as if more than 389 wolves died in a single instant, but their positions were far apart from each other.

“H-He’s coming…”

“I-I need to escape quickly, b-but where am I?” My life is more important than my pride, I never expected to have to fight against the strongest human with my status sealed.

“!!!” I twist my body in an unnatural curve to dodge something I wasn’t even able to see, if it weren’t for my instincts, my head would have exploded.

I enter the shadows of the pillars to hide, and start moving from one pillar to the next as fast as I can.

“Come on, Demon King, I was excited to face you, don’t disappoint me like this,” he says in a mocking tone.

His aura seems even denser and heavier now, soon the pillar I’m on is cut off the ground, the thickness of each pillar must be around 50 to 80 meters and he just cut through it as if it was nothing.

“Demon King, it’s not fun if you just run away and send those weak things to attack me.”

I can only feel an instinctive fear of him, this can never be called human, now I understand what Elena meant about Status, I feel it, he’s restraining himself, so all this aura is just pure killing intent without considering his status.

I never thought I would feel so much fear of something that is holding back.

“I found you.”

“Urk…” He suddenly appeared in the same shadow I passed through and somehow pulled me out of the shadows and grabbed me by the neck.

“So, Demon King, I thought you’d be stronger, I can’t believe this is all you have to show,” I use my tail to attack while forming magic with my hand.

He throws me against a pillar before I can finish casting magic or attack him physically.

“!!! KILL HIM” He suddenly appears in front of me as he’s about to kick, instinctively I summon the largest shadow I can at the moment and enter the shadows generated, narrowly dodging the kick.

A giant shark of over 300 meters was created, but as soon as it tried to close its jaws, it was split in half from top to bottom.

I go back to fleeing, taking advantage of the chance.

“Damn, damn, damn, he won’t stop chasing me, I-I need to do something…” The only method would be a trap, I would never have the courage to fight that thing at the moment, he could kill me whenever he wanted, he’s just playing with me.

“…Demon King, it’s not fun if you just keep running away.”

‘H-How is he already here?’ If we’re talking logically, the point where I started and where I am now is already more than 50,000 meters from the initial point, but he seems to always be on my tail.

“Since you like running away, try to survive, Demon King,” He speaks in a serious tone, suddenly everything becomes heavy, that oppressive aura is now unbearable, I feel like a tiny insect next to a giant.

“Mesumari Devour All” He says something and by instinct I enter the shadows of the pillar and pass to the shadows of this thing that is supposedly a human.

When the aura diminishes, I jump out of the shadow, passing behind him, and try to gain distance.

“!!! I-Impossible…” My body trembles with fear at the sight, a hole, I think the term hole doesn’t even explain it, I can say that literally everything to the North has disappeared and now all that remains is a bottomless hole, no matter how far I look on the horizon, there is nothing, everything has been completely replaced by a bottomless hole.

If I were hit by whatever he used, it would be instant death.

“Not bad, Demon King, not many react fast enough to dodge my sword.”

‘T-That was a sword attack? Where’s the sword?’ I don’t see him holding anything, I can only assume it’s something like how Violet becomes in my hand.

Between me and him, I don’t know which of us is the true monster, the title of the strongest human is no exaggeration.

He disappears from my field of vision and by instinct I block my side with my arms.

THWACK-CRASH!

My arms break instantly as I block a blow I didn’t even see, and I am thrown against one of the pillars, going through it and going to the next, until I pass through about 3 of them.

I have never been so humiliated in a fight before, he is just playing with me, and all I can do is flee or dodge, I don’t see the slightest margin to hit anything in this “thing”.

“Haaa… Haaa” I breathe heavily as I get up from the rubble. I try to run again, I can’t fight head-on, I need an urgent plan, if I receive a few more blows like this, I will die.

So far, the only thing that has kept me alive are my instincts.

I can’t even count on help, since I came to this place completely alone, Violet is with me but is sleeping and without a sword she is useless, although I can create a sword, I don’t know how to wake Violet up.

“Demon King, don’t run away again, it’s not fun, at least try to fight back.”

No matter his provocation, I have to be smart, I can’t run, that’s obvious, I have to catch him off guard and kill him, in the end, if he really is Mikael Calamitas, then he is still a human, I just need to destroy his heart or head.

His voice and appearance are distorted, I don’t know the reason for this, but the scent really seems to be a human. However, he is too strong to be called just a human.

Even though I’m very afraid and my body wants to run away, I am not someone who will let myself be killed without a fight. During this time of fleeing, I thought of various ways to attack, and I think I finally got one.

My body is afraid of him and just wants to run away, I even feel like crying, but I know that if I don’t kill him, I’ll die here.

I start circling around him, and it’s strange that at the same time I’m afraid of him, I also feel another feeling that I can’t identify at the moment.

I start generating many sharks and positioning them on the ground, while using many wolves to attack him, I see him killing the wolves with common blows while not taking his eyes off me.

I continue to spread as many shadows as I can, the [Shadow Sculpture] ability doesn’t consume mana, all I need is shadows, and fortunately these many stone pillars generate a lot of shadows.

[Dematerialization] [Path of Time]

I use dematerialization to pass through everything in the way while accelerating my speed by accelerating time only around me.

In an instant I’m close to him.

[Master of Chaos]

I use Master of Chaos to try to disrupt his decision-making and take advantage of the accelerated time to use multiple spells.

“[Black Prison] [Dark Lance] [Rend]” I use three spells at the same time while trying to punch him in the face and hit his legs with my tail.

The black lances advance, aiming at his abdomen, the Black Prison is going for his wrists, and the Rend is in the entire area he’s in, cutting everything with wind.

“!!!” He cuts my lances with his hands, dodges my punch and tail while breaking the chains with pure brute force. Although he took small cuts from the Rend.

He takes a step back and rushes towards me, I initially try to block and when the punch is close, I change to dodge, if I blocked, my arms would break.

I take advantage of his punch to try to hit my own punch while preparing all the sharks. He hits me with a kick that I use my tail to defend my abdomen, I am thrown a few meters but soon recover.

“Not bad, Demon King, it seems you decided to stop running.”All the minor injuries he had have already healed.

“But with just these weak attacks, you have no chance.”

‘It’s ready’ My preparation is done.

I rush towards him in a straight line, he prepares to strike me until…

A giant jaw emerges from the ground, the area is so large that it easily covers 2 kilometers, the jaw quickly closes, darkening the entire area, now that we are in the mouth of the giant shark, all the light is gone.

My Shadow Sculpture ability doesn’t depend on magic, but on how much shadow I have, so now that the entire area is dark, I can attack from anywhere with attacks of enormous magnitude.

I generate thousands of shadow blades throughout the perimeter of the shadow and shoot them all at him.

“This is the end, Mikael Calamitas,” I shout to him with a sadistic smile as I wait for him to be torn to pieces by an amount of blades that easily exceeds 50,000.

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